When lightning strikes on aircraft.
The lightning striking an airplane is not something exceptional, since it is estimated that all aircraft are victims of lightning every 1,000 flight hours.
All aircraft are prepared for that if you receive rays, they affect only the surface of it, ie the outside, while moving the beam to the tail where it is unloaded.
aircraft, resembling a metal case "hollow" and therefore affected by an electric Meteor (such as the impact of lightning), all inside the metal case with content such as fuel, remains intact, without alteration or even the temperature inside the plane.
planes occurs in a similar effect as occurring on a Faraday cage, an effect discovered by the British physicist Michael Faraday in the nineteenth century.
The Faraday effect causes the electromagnetic field inside a conductor in equilibrium is zero. The same effect occurs in the center of a hollow magnet, it produces a magnetic balance, which nullifies the effect of external magnetic fields.
When an aircraft receives a ray, electric charges are for the plane's fuselage, which is reinforced by a network of cables that end in electrical arresters in the queue. This allows the passage of the plane ride out the magnetic effects of shock that can reach 300,000 volts. It's true that can cause structural damage, alter or disable the instruments, but not make them only by the lightning crashes.
a radar to detect storms.
The beam can damage the meteorological radar and leave it inoperable. The aircraft are equipped to handle this type of weather. The rays often impacting the nose of the aircraft, which is where the weather radar antenna to the aircraft indicating the presence of thunderstorms. Al
the device not being connected to ground, the beam passes through the metal of the aircraft and out the tail. In particular, output from the static dischargers are located in this part of the plane. When impact occurs, people are inside only notice a glare and a click away.
Another different question is whether a lightning strike can cause a plane crash, in which case the answer is yes. The lightning, the impact the weather radar, can leave inoperative, which means that the pilot has to go blind in the midst of turmoil. To go without radar, the aircraft can enter a storm of hail, which can get into the engines and off. Each motor has an electric generator, which immediately leave for work. Airplane
dark.
At that time, the plane is in darkness and eats batteries on board. The aircraft has a third generator, extra, located in the tail, which often go off route. The pilot can take up to five minutes to run it. Meanwhile, must try to regain control of the plane, which has been with the engines off and rushes into the void.
According to an Airbus pilot who carried out the Madrid route to Rio de Janeiro on numerous occasions: "You can not cross the intertropical front without radar and less at night. The most logical in this situation is turning around. It is a very uncomfortable to fly. You spend two hours trying to dodge the storms and watching the fuel, whether to go to the nearest airport. "In this tropical convergence zone, which fluctuates around Ecuador, air masses converge the two hemispheres. The winds can reach 200 kilometers per hour and can be accompanied by lightning and hail storms and even mini-cyclones.
The plane passing through the storms can get some lightning. It's true that can damage the structure , alter or disable the instruments, but do it crashes only by lightning. The lightning, the impact the weather radar, can leave inoperative, which means that the pilot has to go blind in the midst of turmoil, which eventually can cause an accident.
All aircraft are prepared for that if you receive rays, they affect only the surface of it, ie the outside, while moving the beam to the tail where it is unloaded. ******************************************
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